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   <name>Rigobert Lapu-Bula, M.D., Ph.D.</name>
   <title>Associate Professor </title>
   <department>Medicine</department>
   <title2>Lecturer &amp; Director</title2>
   <department2>IN MDI Curriculum Cardiovascular Physiology &amp; Cardiovascular Hemodynamic and Ultrasound
      Core
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   <email>rlapu@msm.edu</email>
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   <education>
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         <strong>MEDICAL SCHOOL:</strong>
         <br></br>University of Kinshasa
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         <strong>Degree:</strong> Doctor of Medicine
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         <strong>GRADUATE:</strong>
         <br></br>Catholic University of Louvain
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         <strong>Degree:</strong> Doctor of Philosophy in Exercise Physiology and Heart Failure
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   <clinicalinterests></clinicalinterests>
   <specialties></specialties>
   <research>
      <p>Cardio-vascular phenotyping/Cardio-vascular disease
         <br></br>
         <br></br>Blood pressure regulation
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         <br></br>Salt-Sensitivity
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         <br></br>NASA Space Medicine/Cardiovascular Adaptation to Microgravity 
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         <br></br>Exercise Physiology 
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   </research>
   <boardcerts>American Board of Cardiology</boardcerts>
   <publications>
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            <p class="Nom">Chen HH, Anstrom KJ, Givertz MM, Stevenson LW, Semigran MJ, Goldsmith SR, Bart BA,
               Bull DA, Stehlik J, LeWinter MM, Konstam MA, Huggins GS, Rouleau JL, O'Meara E, Tang
               WH, Starling RC, Butler J, Deswal A, Felker GM, O'Connor CM, Bonita RE, Margulies
               KB, Cappola TP, Ofili EO, Mann DL, Dávila-Román VG, McNulty SE, Borlaug BA, Velazquez
               EJ, Lee KL, Shah MR, Hernandez AF, Braunwald E, Redfield MM; NHLBI Heart Failure Clinical
               Research Network [
               <strong>Among 146 Investigators/Collaborators: Lapu-Bula R</strong>]. Low-dose dopamine or low-dose nesiritide in acute heart failure with renal dysfunction:
               the ROSE acute heart failure randomized trial. JAMA 2013 Dec 18;310(23):2533-43. PMID:
               24247300
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               <strong>Lapu-Bula R,</strong> Oduwole A, Bielo MV, Onwuanyi AE, Quarshie A, Ofili E. Risk factors for non-ST-elevation
               myocardial infarction in a population sample of predominantly African American patients
               with chest pain and normal coronary arteries. Ethn Dis 2011;21:421-428.
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               <strong>Lapu-Bula R</strong>, Onwuanyi A, Bielo MV, Deffer O, Quarshie A, Alema-Mensah E, Cross JA, Oduwole A,
               Ofili E. Risk factors for acute non-ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction in
               a population sample of predominantly African American patients with chest pain and
               normal coronary arteries. 
               <span class="jrnl" title="Ethnicity &amp; disease">Ethn Dis</span>. 2011 Autumn;21(4):421-8. PMID: 22428345
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               <strong>Lapu-Bula R</strong>, Ofili E. From hypertension to heart failure: role of nitric oxide-mediated endothelial
               dysfunction and emerging insights from myocardial contrast echocardiography. 
               <span class="jrnl" title="The American journal of cardiology">Am J Cardiol</span>. 2007 Mar 26;99(6B):7D-14D. Epub 2007 Jan 29. Review. PMID: 17378995
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               <br></br>Onwuanyi AE, Abe O, Quarshie A, Al-Mahmoud A, 
               <strong>Lapu-Bula R</strong>, Francis CK, Ofili E. Comparative frequency of angiographic coronary artery disease
               in African Americans and Hispanics. 
               <span class="jrnl" title="Ethnicity &amp; disease">Ethn Dis</span>. 2006 Winter;16(1):58-63. PMID: 16599349 
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               <br></br>Ofili E, Igho-Pemu P, 
               <strong>Lapu-Bula R</strong>, Quarshie A, Obialo C, Thomas C, Onwuanyi A, Odwole A, Ojutalayo F, Johnson P, Murphy
               F, Mayberry R, Strayhorn G. The Community Physicians' Network (CPN): an academic-community
               partnership to eliminate healthcare disparities. 
               <span class="jrnl" title="Ethnicity &amp; disease">Ethn Dis</span>. 2005 Autumn;15(4 Suppl 5):S5-124-7. Erratum in: Ethn Dis. 2006 Autumn;16(4):x. Onwanyi,
               Anekwe [corrected to Onwuanyi, Anekwe]; Oduwole, Adefisayo [corrected to Odwole, Adefisayo].
               PMID: 16315391 
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               <br></br>Ofili E, Pemu PI, Gulaya V, 
               <strong>Lapu-Bula R</strong>, Lankford B, Oduwole A, Anderson D. Targeting healthcare disparities: an integrated
               model to improve treatment rates of dyslipidemia in African American patients. 
               <span class="jrnl" title="Current atherosclerosis reports">Curr Atheroscler Rep</span>. 2005 Jul;7(4):249-50. No abstract available. Erratum in: Curr Atheroscler Rep. 2006
               May;8(3):iii. Bula, Rigobert Lapu [corrected to Lapu-Bula, Rigobert]. PMID: 15975316
               
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               <br></br>Click 
               <a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed?term=%22Lapu-Bula%20R%22%5BAuthor%5D&amp;cmd=DetailsSearch" target="_blank">here</a> to view selected publications 
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   <awards>
      <p class="Titresection">2011: Certificate of Appreciation Mentoring, Vivien Thomas Summer Research Program 
         
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         <br></br>2009: Honorary Class Member Award, Morehouse School Medicine Master of Science in
         Clinical Research 
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